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Re: Is use of <label> and title redundant?

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From: GILLENWATER, ZOE M
Date: Nov 19, 2012 8:10AM

Hi Steve,

Can you share what the bugs you found are? I've had trouble with hidden labels if the hiding method had overflow:hidden on it, but removing that got rid of all my problems. Here's the hiding CSS I've tested without problems so far:

.hidden-spoken {
position: absolute !important;
clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px);
clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);
padding:0 !important;
border:0 !important;
height: 1px !important;
width: 1px !important;
}

As I said, I'd love to hear differing opinions on this topic! I posted a thread on this issue months ago because I'm genuinely trying to figure out the pros and cons to different approaches, and I still haven't made a decision as to which will be my method of first resort.

Thanks for your help,
Zoe

Zoe Gillenwater
Web Accessibility Technical Architect
AT&T Consumer Digital Experience

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